Eudora Welty Quotes
Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
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Relax for a moment my Jerry Come out of your dark monastery While Venus is beaming above. Darling, let's talk about love.
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I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean!
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Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.
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One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.
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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.
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We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
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I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me included. I know that when an actor comes out with some poetry or an album, I think, 'Oh crikey, what's this going to be like?'
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Christ's mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper, and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism capitalized in original appears to be nothing more than ordinary water, and the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood simple bread and wine, like other bread and wine, and the sermon, hot air from a man's mouth. But we must not trust what our eyes see.
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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.
